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Re: Helsinki, Finland - June 5, 2010 (Helsinki Live! Festival)
Date: June 5, 2010
City: Helsinki, Finland
Venue: Käpylän Urheilupuisto (Helsinki Live 2010)
Attendance:
Setlist:
Intro
01. Chinese Democracy
02. Welcome to the Jungle
03. It's So Easy
04. Mr. Brownstone
05. Sorry
Richard Fortus Guitar Solo
06. Live and Let Die
Jam
07. This I Love
08. Rocket Queen
Jam
Dizzy Reed Piano Solo
09. Street of Dreams
10. You Could Be Mine
DJ Ashba Guitar Solo
11. Sweet Child O' Mine
Jam (Another Brick In The Wall)
Axl Piano Solo (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road/Someone Saved My Life Tonight)
12. November Rain
Bumblefoot Guitar Solo (Pink Panther)
Jam
13. Knockin' on Heaven's Door
14. Nightrain
Encore:
15. Madagascar
16. Better
17. Paradise City
Re: Helsinki, Finland - June 5, 2010 (Helsinki Live! Festival)
Intro
Chinese
Jungle
Easy
Brownstone
Sorry
Fortus solo
Live and let die
Jam, this I love
Rocket queen
Jam/dizzy solo
Street of dreams
You could be mine
Dj solo
SCOM
Jam (another brick....)/axl piano solo (goodbye yellow..../someone saved....)/november rain
Bumblefoot solo (pink panther)
jam, Heaven's door
Nightrain
Maddy
Better
PC
Re: Helsinki, Finland - June 5, 2010 (Helsinki Live! Festival)
From htgth
The first review of the show is titled "Guns N' Roses started 45mins late" Grin I mean.. C'MON!
It also says that the first song (CD) didn't start up the crowd, which is nothing but bullshit.
Edit. Helsingin Sanomat (main Finnish newspaper) gave the band thumbs up and the writer seemed to be pretty positive about the whole concert, even with the little problems like Axl's voice being too low at some points. He didn't complain about "Axl being late" and even though he mentioned that Dizzy and Axl are the only "old members", it doesn't seem to be important because the band works and the crowd enjoy it! He also mentioned Axl walking with his stomach pushed out front and laughing at his own joke Grin
And Ron pushed the piano away from the stage before his solo
Re: Helsinki, Finland - June 5, 2010 (Helsinki Live! Festival)
Just watched a few vids from Helsinki and Axl is certainly in top form early on in the show, such as this.
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Not quite as stellar later on in the show, although "Better" has always been a tough song for him to pull off live. And he did sound "better" on Paradise City.
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Maybe a reason for the shorter and more static sets this time around? I might move Better up in the rotation and play a different CD song during the encore. Might be a little easier on Axl's voice.
Re: Helsinki, Finland - June 5, 2010 (Helsinki Live! Festival)
TIL is amazing. Glad to see they do it every show.
However, on Better his voice is simply not good, and I get worried. I hope his voice will endure this tour.
I know a lot of hardcore fans love "Better" but I wouldn't complain if they dropped it for a song that's a little easier for Axl to handle. Maybe, "If The World". Or like I said earlier, move "Better" up in the set when Axl's voice is a bit stronger. I get the point of putting one of the fan favorites from CD in the encore but it's not like they're pumping CD down the publics throat so I don't think it'd be a huge deal if they swapped Better and Sorry or something like that.
Re: Helsinki, Finland - June 5, 2010 (Helsinki Live! Festival)
A review by Helsingin Sanomat (Helsinki Times), the biggest newspaper in the country.
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One-Million Euro Man (And Then Some)
Is art something you can put a price-tag on? Such a question springs to mind when one tries to even out the less-than-expected ticket sales of Helsinki Live, the festival by promoter Kalle Keskinen, and the headlining fee of over one million euros, which went the way of Guns N' Roses. In other words, was Axl Rose with his backup band worthy of one of the tallest orders in the Finnish festival scene ever?
Probably not.
That doesn't mean the show Rose and his band put up fell short on drama. Tension was in the air on whether Rose is able rev his engines, get his pipes cleared up, and whether the whole of the audience actually goes for it, instead of merely the hard-cores up front. Rose delivered, albeit the two-hour setlist contained an awesome amount of filler - for instance, almost every single track off the new Chinese Democracy album, as well as various jams and instrumentals played by the band during Axl's every change of clothes.
Axl's outfits themselves lit up the mood. During Sweet Child O' Mine he went for a red flannel shirt, closely resembling the ones he'd worn in the early 1990's. The red bandanna also made an appearance, while the cornrows were gracefully gone. Axl was emulating the Golden Era of the band, right down to appearance and expression - a risky choice, as it underlined the new bands lack of charisma and the vocalist's hefty outlook. On the other hand, the show now offered an abudance of nostalgia, which most of the crowd was after anyway.
The biggest thrills came from, not the three guitarists, but the keyboardist. Out of the blue, Dizzy Reed played an instrumental of Warren Zevon's Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner. The choice might've been inspired by the opening lyrics, which went 'Roland was a warrior from the Land of the Midnight Sun...' Another fine moment was immediately before November Rain, as Rose himself sang and played Another Brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd with a grand piano. Rose obviously played on into November Rain, with the song's uplifting C-part being one of the utmost highlights of the show.
Despite the freezing chill in the Käpylä night, the audience was warmed up with a concession of the big hits. As the response began to pick up, Rose reached his audience better. No later than the eighth song of the night, Rocket Queen, the mood and the sound of the show were right on the money, given the festival circumstances. Excluding the solo spots - instrumentals by the players, incl. the aforementioned Zevon track, the James Bond theme and The Pink Panther - the rest of the show was basically out and out old material, with a triumphant closure provided with Knockin' on Heaven's Door and Nightrain. Running about twenty minutes overtime from their slot, the band capped off a three-song encore, closing with Paradise City.
The GNR show may not be the liveliest Rock performance out there, but Rose remains a curious figure. He's a walking reminder of the times in between the 1980's-90's when rock bands still had a claim for superstardom.
